You are one of the people who have been around from the beginning of The Document Foundation, and one of the oldest members of the community (including the years of OpenOffice.Org). How were you involved in the project? I was using StarOffice 5.2 and was contributing support on the French
Year: 2019
Community Member Monday: Vera Blagoveschenskaya
Today we’re talking to Vera from the Russian LibreOffice community, who has been especially active in our Quality Assurance (QA) project recently… First, tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Obninsk, Russia – it’s one of the major Russian science cities. You know, the first nuclear power plant
Bringing people together: German LibreOffice Community Meeting, May 2019
Free and open source software is all about community: meeting people, sharing knowledge and ideas, and having a good time! As you may know, LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community, and every year, members of the German-speaking community meet to discuss the project’s status and future. In May, we
OASIS announces the ODF Advocacy Open Project
The ODF Advocacy Open Project we have pre-announced at FOSDEM is now a reality. Yesterday, OASIS has released the following press release, which is just the first step of a new sustained activity focused on supporting the adoption of ODF – the only true standard document format available on the
First Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3
LibreOffice 6.3 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August 2019 (see release notes describing the new features here). In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 on
Next C++ workshop: Binary Trees, 9 May at 18:00 UTC
Boost your C++ skills with the help of LibreOffice developers! We’re running regular workshops which focus on a specific topic, and are accompanied by a real-time IRC meeting. For the next one, the topic is Binary Trees. Start by watching this presentation: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTube